This post aims at drafting a blueprint for future implementation in Ubuntu Linux.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
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Duplex printing [1] is currently available only to mid-high-end printers.
However same goal can be achieved with minimal effort and minimal user interaction also on simplex low-end printers via a software hack.
Procedure:
This has been achieved for example by Samsung [...]

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Firefox 3.0 stable default setup has these features disabled

direct printing from print preview
ability to zoom page before printing from print preview
ability to change printing page orientation (portrait/landscape)

all this can be achieved by setting string print.whileInPrintPreview in about:config as true
(this now defaults to false).
I filed a bug report about this issue here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/245772

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Basket Note Pads http://basket.kde.org is a KDE native application for note taking that enables you to do all the following tasks and a lot more in a very human like way.
Basket Note Pads is a GNU Linux alternative to Micro$oft One Note and also to the Mono dependent Tomboy, being much much better than both [...]

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Since Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 is not supported yet by VMware, and not supported at all by latest VMware 6.0.2 and VMware server we need some tweaking to make it install.
1) download VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.i386.tar.gz (from http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ )
2) unpack it and run ’sudo ./vmware-install.pl’ from the terminal inside the unpacked vmware-distrib directory. Follow the wizard and do not [...]

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Some free converter from OOXML to ODF format.
Beware of privacy related concerns!
> Do not use them with sensitive data.
> Do not give them your main e-mail address as it could be sold to advertising (spam) companies.
http://www.zamzar.com/
http://media-convert.com/conversion/
http://www.youconvertit.com/
http://www.docx2doc.com/index.aspx
http://www.docx-converter.com/

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Faldeby.org%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fm-ooxml-to-odf.html’;
addthis_title = ‘M%24+OOXML+to+ODF’;
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OpenDocument Viewer
Cross-platform viewer for OpenDocument files
http://opendocumentfellowship.com/odfviewer

OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-ins for MS Office:
http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/download.html
Before installing the ODF Add-in for Word, Excel or PowerPoint, make sure you have the following installed on your PC:
* Microsoft Office 2007 with .NET Programmability Support activated comprising of Word 2007 / Excel 2007 / PowerPoint 2007 as applicable (depending on the converter(s) [...]

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Looking for GoogleEarth geopolitical & political maps / layers?
Have a look at here!
Many thanks fly to Valery Hronusov (Valery35) for his precious and priceless work!
Library for automatic connection to popular collections of forum herebelow cited:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/224706
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/251067

World countries as polygons:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/289717
State-Province areas of countries:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/315823/page/0/fpart/all/vc/1

Education tools (i.e. administrative units, countries and boundaries, earth city lights, major lakes, [...]

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in order to create password protected archives in linux you should use the shell since GNOME contextual menu does not provide this feature yet.
rar
rar a -hp archive_name.rar folder_or_file_to_compress
7zip
7z a -mhe=on -p archive_name.7z folder_or_file_to_compress

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Faldeby.org%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fhowto-create-password-protected-archives-in-linux.html’;
addthis_title = ‘howto+create+password+protected+archives+in+linux’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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Have you ever wondered how to watch and record on your computer mms and rtsp streams?
In windows there is only StreamBox VCR, old app not more updated due to license issues.
In linux mplayer simply does this job!
1) First make sure you have win32codecs (or win64codecs if you have Linux AMD64) installed, if not install them [...]

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In /etc you can find configuration file papersize which simply shows which paper size is in use system wide.
Wrong paper size (i.e. letter instead of European A4) can lead to misprinted documents, especially with the system PDF printer. In particular if you find text rows at the top and at the bottom of the paper [...]

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